From TMZ, the Las Vegas shooter had booked two hotel rooms overlooking the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. (Did he want to shoot people there, or was this some kind of test run? I'm inclined to believe the latter, because getting all those guns into hotel rooms in Chicago would have been much more difficult than getting them into the hotel in Las Vegas. Chicago has strict gun control, and is much farther away from his residence in Mesquite, NV.)
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the shooter's "game of choice" was video poker.
From FrontpageMag, four myths about mass shootings.
From the Daily Mail, a crude bomb is discovered under a truck in Paris.
From the Greek Reporter, about 14,000 migrants have returned home from Greece.
From Yahoo Finance, three U.S. Army commandos were killed in Niger in an ambush. (If you're wondering why this is in the Finance section of Yahoo, so am I. If you're wondering why American troops are in Niger, read the story.)
From Accuracy In Media, the media are "still reeling over Rex Tillerson".
From Fox News, NFL quarterback Cam Newton's mouth costs him a sponsor.
From National Review, the NFL "is a glass house".
From Townhall, President Trump will not let the media turn Puerto Rico into his "Katrina". (Is it OK now to joke about Hurricane Maria by referring to that song in The Sound Of Music? Hmmm, probably not.)
From International Business Times, a Muslim couple in Sweden are jailed after forcing their daughter to marry her cousin in Kurdistan.
From The News, a pro-sharia death squad in Pakistan targeted policemen.
From Reuters, although homeless, some Rohingya still fight in an insurgency in Myanmar.
From the Khaleej Times, prosecutors in Dubai seek "the strictest penalty" for an Indonesian woman who sat on the Koran. (The article does not specify what "the strictest penalty" is. Does anyone wish to speculate?)
From The Express Tribune, in Pakistan, a man is killed with an ax for marrying a divorced woman.
From Sputnik International, the prime minister of Kosovo is offering Kosovan citizenship to ethnic Albanians living in Serbia.
From Breitbart London, rightwing activists from Austria and Slovenia donate goods to Hungarian border guards.
From Radio Poland, Polska znowu mówi "nie". Or in English, Poland again says "no". (via Westmonster)
From the Express, French left-wingers want the E.U. flag taken down from their parliament. (I rarely find myself agreeing with left-wingers, but I think I can get behind them on this one. I don't think I'd want flags from outside the U.S. on the Capitol building.)
From Philly(dot)com, the NRA is open to rapid fire accessories such as "bump stocks" being regulated. (Didn't I recently link a story that the BATF approved of such devices in 2010? Check my recent posts.)
From The Daily Caller, the House has passed the 2018 federal budget. (If you want to say "holy cow!", go right ahead.)
From The New York Times, accusations of sexual harassment against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein go back decades.
And from Twitchy, some NRA members do not agree with their organization's new opinion about regulating "bump stocks", as reported above.
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